Artist: De FabriekTitle: Quatro-Erogenic-Occupy Theme's Part
IIFormat: CD-R ltd. to 103 copies in standard jewel case Tracks: 9Playing time: 60:00Release date: January 2007File under: Alien Therapy Music Note: A very special edition of 247 copies was planned and released (...see afe058lcd), but 103 of them were accidentally destroyed by water... Please read the description below for the full story.

It took us
so long to bring you this new De Fabriek work... It's always
our greatest pleasure to introduce a new Afe release, but after
two years in the making, two years of accurate preparation and joyful
struggling, we're especially glad to unveil "Quatro-Erogenic-Occupy
Theme's Part II".

We already released a De Fabriek CD-R album in 2001 as a co-production
with our friends at Blade Records: "Labische
Intermediaries III - Sauerkraut und Krötenschwanz"
really impressed us at the time and we must admit that we didn't expect
that their new work could be even better, but once again De Fabriek surprised
us in a very unexpected and positive way with "Quatro-Erogenic-Occupy
Theme's Part II", which as the title aptly suggests,
is the ideal second part of their CD released by Moloko+ in 1999.

I guess that
De Fabriek need no introduction to those who share with us an
even small interest in experimental electronic music, but we can't help
to mention a few details about their long, long story: active as a collective
musical experience since the late 70s, those years when the Industrial
Music scene appeared, they have always been a strange description-defying
creature. Moving
from one side of experimentation to the other, they've been through minimal
music, Industrial, musique concrete, sound-weirdness
and the lot... It's also worth mentioning their singular approach to packaging:
many of their releases were published in limited editions and most of
them came in custom-made and special packages. Rest assured that "Quatro-Erogenic-Occupy
Theme's Part II" is no exception to this rule, but
more about this a few lines ahead...

De Fabriek
always had some permanent members who worked together with other collaborators
on specific projects and once again this is how it went this time: Richard
Van Dellen, The Use of Ashes, V2 and the other
core members of the collective, created the main tracks and provided tons
of samples to Hue (...of Sparkle
In Grey and Normality / Edge
fame...) who integrated them with the music, created a few new tracks,
reworked the lot adding more and more layers of his own sounds and did
a magnificent mix which was later finalised for production by The
Afeman himself.

The main
theme and inspiration for "Quatro-Erogenic-Occupy Theme's Part
II" comes from close encounters, otherworldy lifeforms,
contactism and the whole space/alien cover-up, myth
or truth in general.

The whole
disc has obviously a space taste and starts off with "Spacewalking",
a beautiful Kraut-Rock oriented ballad which hypnotize the listener
and sets the mood for what's to come. Strange voices introduce "Otherworldy
Lifeform", which showcases mantrically mysterious acoustic instruments
and percussions that accompain a moltitude of growls and croakings
that follow one another.

The short
interlude of "A Forest of Falling Stars" introduces
the more meditative "A Call from Aliens", where a solo
space-guitar is backed up by some kind of palmate fingerpicking
until alien voices rush into the echo-chamber where it's being
recorded... The electronics which are being spreaded all over
the disc gets more in the foreground during "Circulating Asteroids"
and "Ether Voices".

Clocking
in past the seventeen minutes mark, "The Comet Dance"
is the longest track on the album. It starts with the kind of vocal
oddities we though would never get into the mix, just before growing
into an endless ethnic space-anthem which we bet will be heard
during the alien operatory-room scenes in the next X-Files
series, if there'll ever be one.

The disc
approaches its end with "Timegap 300", a very delicate
song with rather inspired and inspiring clean and vocoderized vocals accompanied
by clear guitar/piano lines, old-fashioned synthesizers and simple drum-machine
patterns: a peak of beauty soon followed by "If Stars are Gods",
the closing track that summarizes the content of the whole work.

An original and very special edition of 247 copies of "Quatro-Erogenic-Occupy Theme's Part II" was planned and released in June 2004 (...see afe058lcd), but 103 of them were accidentally destroyed by water poured inside our small warehouse just a few months later. Sadly, the resources used to create the special artwork are not available anymore... After thinking about it for long time, we decided to re-release the 103 destroyed copies in this standard jewel case edition.